I have a River Safari map from 2013 and I recently obtained a new map from 2016. On the older map there is a list of animals seen from the Amazon boat ride that include the following species: Maned Wolf, Guanaco, Emperor Tamarin, Brown-Nosed Coati, White-Faced Saki Monkey, Mara, Agouti, Linne's Two-Toed Sloth, Green Iguana and Red-Backed Bearded Saki Monkey. None of those 10 species are on the brand-new map and perhaps the zoo decided to condense the number of animals printed on its maps...or are some of those species no longer at the zoo?
I know that River Safari has already made several changes in its first few years of operation. American Beavers were originally part of the Mississippi River section (with the name River Wonders just before that zone now) and the Australian section called Murray River is now Mary River on the new map and a mangrove area was added alongside a touch pool.
I thought the Australian section had been scrapped and turned into something else. Zooish will have to either confirm or deny my thought. I maybe be mis-remembering something he posted about it changing.
The new map is on their website, too, for anyone else who wants to look at it.
The Maned Wolf, Guanaco, Emperor Tamarin, Brown-Nosed Coati, White-Faced Saki Monkey, Mara, Linne's Two-Toed Sloth and Red-Backed Bearded Saki Monkey are still on display. Agoutis never made it to the collection I think. And the iguanas have just been removed from the Scarlet Ibis aviary. The map was simplified probably to temper visitors' expectations of the ride. Realistically it would be near impossible to spot every single species due to the speed of the ride.
Murray River is now Mary River, still loosely Australian-themed. It now displays various rainbowfish species, lungfish, archer fish, mudskipper, and also has a touch pool with marine species like horseshoe crabs, knobbly sea star and bamboo sharks.
The American Beaver pair are still around but off-show. You can pay extra to go behind-the-scenes and feed them.
